2023-11-12 15:45:42 Joe Manchin’s impending departure from the U.S. Senate marks the end of an era for West Virginia’s conservative Democrats, who for decades held outsize influence in Washington. It’s the latest sign of the party’s steady decline in the state that often has paralleled the demise of Appalachian coal. Manchin, 76, is the last … Read more
2022-12-06 08:00:00 Four weeks have passed since the US congressional elections and one important question is still unanswered: Who will represent the state of Georgia in the Senate in Washington? This time, however, it’s not because the count was too slow, but because none of the candidates surpassed the 50 percent mark of the vote … Read more
2023-06-01 02:00:00 Washington After weeks of arguing about the record deficit in the United States, the US House of Representatives decided to temporarily suspend the debt ceiling. On Thursday night, the Chamber of Congress voted 314 votes in favor of a legislative package that would overturn the debt limit for two years and at the … Read more
New York At the weekend, Joe Biden had hinted at his plan in secrecy. He will use all “executive” options to prevent his climate policy from failing. Now it becomes clear what exactly he meant by that: Apparently the US President is about to declare a climate emergency. After China, the United States is the … Read more
Democratic Senator Joe Manchin is becoming an increasing problem for President Joe Biden’s far-reaching legislative projects. In an opinion piece Manchin wrote for a newspaper in his home state of West Virginia that he would vote against the major electoral reform that all other senators in his party support and which the House of Representatives … Read more